John Samuel Thomson
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: M2/227858
Place of Birth: Dumfries
Date of Death: 31/10/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps (“Y” Siege Park) attached to XXII Corps Heavy Artillery
Cemetery: Auberchicourt British Cemetery
Additional information: Husband of Margaret Thomson of 2 Macalpine Place, Cambuslang Road, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mrs Thomson, 2 McAlpine Place, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Margaret Thomson and children.
1901 census information:
Address: Faulds Farm, Cumbernauld
Father: John (54) farmer, born about 1847 in Southwick.
Mother: Helen (56) born about 1845 in Ireland.
Self: John Samuel (15) blacksmith apprentice, born about 1886 in Dumfries.
Sister: Helen (Findlay) (23) railway signalman’s wife, born abt 1878 in Glasgow.
1911 Census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Ellen 66 and John S 25.
Newspaper transcript – Lance-Corporal John S. Thomson (33), Canadian S.B.A.C. (died of wounds). Widow and two children and widowed mother reside at 2 McAlpine Place, Rutherglen.